DevOps Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Development Operations Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Bristol is £71,991 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 91 67
Rank change year-on-year +7 -24 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 13 73 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 1.10% 2.09% 3.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 2.15% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 10 71 61
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £51,000
25th Percentile £58,063 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +19.23% -10.34%
75th Percentile £73,886 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £78,625 £87,500 £95,000
South West median annual salary £66,250 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.64% +5.77% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 1,107 3,391 2,269
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 97.11% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 792 2,475 1,464
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £31,698
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,950 £70,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £86,250
South West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Bristol.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Bristol

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 30 June 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bristol region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
3 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
3 9 (69.23%) Agile
4 7 (53.85%) Bash
4 7 (53.85%) Terraform
4 7 (53.85%) Mentoring
4 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
5 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
5 6 (46.15%) Docker
5 6 (46.15%) Python
6 5 (38.46%) Finance
6 5 (38.46%) Git
6 5 (38.46%) Software Delivery
7 4 (30.77%) IBM UrbanCode
7 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
7 4 (30.77%) Azure
7 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
7 4 (30.77%) Benchmarking
7 4 (30.77%) Banking
7 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (23.08%) Cost Management
8 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (23.08%) Argo
8 3 (23.08%) GitOps
8 3 (23.08%) Culture Change
8 3 (23.08%) Customer Experience
8 3 (23.08%) PowerShell

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) Serverless
3 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Datadog
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Pulumi
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 5 (38.46%) Git
3 4 (30.77%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (23.08%) GitLab
5 1 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Health Technology
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (92.31%) CI/CD
3 9 (69.23%) Agile
4 7 (53.85%) Containerisation
4 7 (53.85%) Mentoring
5 5 (38.46%) Software Delivery
6 4 (30.77%) Benchmarking
6 4 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
6 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
7 3 (23.08%) Coaching
7 3 (23.08%) Cost Management
7 3 (23.08%) Culture Change
7 3 (23.08%) Customer Experience
7 3 (23.08%) GitOps
7 3 (23.08%) Project Management
8 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Bash
2 6 (46.15%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) PHP
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 7 (53.85%) Terraform
3 3 (23.08%) Argo
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft